The Patriot Post® · ED Establishment's Success

Walter E. Williams: “In a 1990 survey – and there’s been no improvement since – almost half of college seniors couldn’t locate the Civil War within the correct half-century. More recently, 60 percent of American adults couldn’t name the president who ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb, and over 20 percent didn’t know where – or even whether – the atomic bomb had been used. The same people didn’t know who America’s enemies were during World War II (Germany, Japan and Italy). In a civics survey, more American teenagers were able to name The Three Stooges (Larry, Moe and Curly) than the three branches of the federal government (executive, legislative and judicial). A third of the people who were asked the origin of the statement ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his need’ responded by saying it’s from our Bill of Rights, when it’s actually from ‘The Communist Manifesto.’ I’d say that the education establishment has been successful beyond its wildest dreams in reducing Americans’ ability to think and therefore causing them to have little knowledge of or love for our founding principles.”